Everything that goes wrong when you buy online sample. Handled.
Every sample buy runs the same gauntlet: the bid-round spreadsheet, the blind negotiation, the broken launch, the fraud in the data, the quota cell that silently stalled, the reconciliation fight. SoftSight removes each failure mode — with the suppliers you already use.
Live Fieldwork
Project · Q2 Brand Tracker
Suppliers
12
+3
In-field
8
active
Quality flags
0
clean
Cint · Panel A
On pace
$3.40
Lucid · Panel B
On pace
$3.10
Dynata · Panel C
Negotiating
$2.95
Prodege · Panel D
Blocked 14 fraud
$3.65
SurveyGuard: 14 fraudulent respondents blocked · 187ms avg
10–30%
of online survey responses are fraudulent without real-time protection
70%
of a researcher's week consumed by operational friction
<200ms
to evaluate every respondent across 15 detection layers
End-to-end
supplier coordination, from RFQ to reconciliation
Buying sample isn’t one problem. It’s seven — and they compound.
Our co-founder spent three years running this workflow before deciding to stop accepting it. Sample buys go wrong in the same order every time — the bid round, the negotiation, the launch, the fraud, the incidence, the quota stall, the reconciliation.
Then he stopped accepting it.
Five suppliers, five email formats, one comparison sheet you rebuild by hand.
CPIs negotiated on gut feel — no benchmarks, no memory of last quarter.
The quota cell that silently stalled, found when there’s no field time left.
One live view — every supplier, every metric, every flag.
The chaos moves out of your inbox and into one screen you can actually trust. What you see is what the automation is doing, current at all times.
Inbox · Today
30 unreadRE: RE: CPI for Panel C?
2mURGENT: quota short on 45-54 F
18mQuote_v3_final_FINAL.xlsx
1hRe: feasibility check — any update?
3hClient flagged bad data in dashboard
5hToday, your operation lives in your inbox — quotes, negotiations and quality problems buried in threads.
SoftSight · Live
Cint · Panel A
On pace
Lucid · Panel B
On pace
Dynata · Panel C
Negotiating
Fraud blocked at the door · negotiations handled · all in one view
With SoftSight, it’s one place — every supplier, quote and flag tracked in real time, so nothing slips through.
The infrastructure that fieldwork has always been missing.
See exactly what SoftSight does for you.
The supplier coordination lifecycle, handled end-to-end.
RFQ sent
Brief goes out to every supplier at once.
AI reads quotes
Quotes parsed from email — no spreadsheets.
Negotiates CPI
Counter-offers backed by real data.
Monitors live
Pacing and quality watched in real time.
Reconciles
Final counts and costs squared automatically.
Fraud stopped at the entry point — before it touches your data.
Worthy of the responsibility it carries.
We didn’t build SoftSight to be the biggest software company in market research. We built it because the people who protect the quality of research data — the project managers, the operations leads, the research directors — have been doing extraordinary work with inadequate tools.
And the consequences of that inadequacy are not just operational. They are real: decisions made from bad data cause real harm. Our job is to make their job possible. Not easier for its own sake — but worthy of the responsibility it carries.
Stop managing emails. Start protecting your data.
A 30-minute demo, walked through by someone who has run the workflow you’re trying to leave behind — on your projects, your suppliers, your quality standards.